Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumors

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-61

  Auguste, Kurtis I ^a   Gupta, Nalin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPENDYMOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31544483012     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2005.10.004     Document Type: Review

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